The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-09-28
BIG TRADE At NINETY-s1X.
Call for New Counties at the Old
Fort, LOwndesville and McCor-



NISETY-SIx, S. c., Sept. 81, 1887.
Editor Press and Banner:
Since you heard from me last cotton has
been rolling in. and things are beginning 10
look lively, and everybody pleased. Ninety
Six is to enjoy the biggest trade this Fall and
Winter she has known for years. Your
Greenwood correspondent VIII learn what
about means, when little Ia!er, he flnds.
that two or three thousand bales OF cotton he
put down in his estimate for Greenwood can
be found 'abont" down here. We are paying
as much for cotton and other produce here as
any town on the Z. & G. r. II. In less than
two years time VIC expect to hear the old iron
horse come laundering from the West, by
Knoxville through the noun aims down this
%ay RFrgas se ehssp o eot Inc 6 @
here will forget that hard times ever been:
You know they ought to make their corn ana
bacon at home, but they won't do 1t, and we
are going TO get it hero rs cheap as we can.
What next. well, in about" as many more
years we expect Court House In our town
and then we will have the choicest county IN
the State-she Is coming, you, con put that
down where II will not be rubbed out, Ger
tain" Listen and You can hear from sections
all over the State, the cry, for smaller coun-
ties. People are getting too smart to continue
this old drag twenty-five to flfty miles 10
Court-men have too much busncS at the
county seat these times and they are going 10
bring their business nearer them. The little
sum it would take to build q Court House and
jail will soon shrink into insign'fcancc, whcn
compared to the time and the convenience IL
brings 10 the people. Our people are voting
their thousands 10 build railroads for their
cOnvcnCnceS and they are not going longer
10 allow their Court House friends over the
Slate to keep them In the dark corners OF the
counties by magnifying the little cost 10 put
up public buildings, by crying Dig taxes and
the like. What do our brethren
know OF us over here. or our DnnndS hrcth-
rcn OF McCormick's people? MIR. Editor, this
State will never realize fully what genuine
prosperity is, until we have Court House to
every 1900 square miles. Onr people know 100
little OF each oiher-thcy are spread out too
wide. They cannot concentrate their brains
and capital as they should. Give us small
counties SO our people will get together and
put their money together and start small
manufacturing interests, such as making piow
stocks, axe handles and many other similar
industries. Our sister State, Georgia, has to
make our people her plows and other machln-
cry TO carry on their farms with ana she
makes many things for other departments
too. think the best reason that can be CIV
en-, Is, her counties nrc small and her neoplc
got to know each other and learn what they
needed and went TO work and to-day finds
many manufacturing establishments In her
borders. Our State is rs productive and MS
well suited for manufacturing rs Georgia.
No finer water powers To pc rounu lnan we
have. Our people must wake up and hnd the
trouble. If they find that we need more and
smaller counties, let us have them: We have
slept too long already. Every office In the
State from the least 10 the highest to the nigh
est, should he filled by our very best sons
sober. solid, intelligent mon.
! am told that when the Court House ior the
several counties was located at Cambridge,
that n terrible howl was brought about when
the time came TO divide and now We would
say, what fools. The time has come 70 divide
again and Mr.. Editor, what are we gong 70 10
about IL? JUSTICE.